Hour 1: Leading off with Ross
The Paul Finebaum Show
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3.3 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The pride, passion, and pageantry of college football lives here. |
| 0:07.0 | This is the Paul Pinebaum Show, our one podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | This might be college football, head. |
| 0:17.0 | And we're here on a Friday. We made it. |
| 0:20.0 | Glad to see all of you. |
| 0:21.8 | And welcome on in as we continue to get you ready for the weekend, the final weekend of college football in case you've had forgotten. |
| 0:29.7 | Let's get going here with some headlines and start with, how about this? |
| 0:33.7 | College football is chaotic, messy, and more popular than ever the worst the sport |
| 0:40.1 | gets it seems like more people watch of course we also watch train wrecks Ben |
| 0:44.7 | Strauss Washington Post will join us a little bit later on Knoxville Tennessee is |
| 0:53.9 | our next destination. |
| 0:55.0 | And Danny White says Tennessee won't cheat in Nile like other schools in the portal. |
| 1:02.0 | Okay, we'll get you a Nobel Peace Prize, but your team just came off of a terrible season. |
| 1:08.0 | I wonder what your fans think about that. |
| 1:10.0 | From the of a terrible season. I wonder what your fans think about that. |
| 1:21.1 | From the athletic, what we're hearing from college football coaches about the calendar, |
| 1:22.3 | eligibility and tampering. |
| 1:28.7 | Matt Baker, from that esteemed troika of sports riders, will join us from the AFCA that's the American Football Coaches Association in case you were |
| 1:32.5 | wondering and how it this headline from Yahoo we are Monday laundering with |
| 1:41.4 | schools bending or breaking new rules SEC and other |
| 1:44.2 | some will model the new governance model Ross made his way to the NCAA convention in |
| 1:51.0 | Maryland this week and I'm eager to hear what was accomplished Ross thanks for the time |
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